I saw Marcus at a live clinic about 15 years ago when I played guitar for the most part. A buddy of mine was a bass player and convinced me to go with him. No joke - I went to my apartment after the clinic, grabbed my guitar, traded it for a bass at Guitar Center and have never looked back! Marcus is the man!

They were all feeling it and using dynamics as pro musicians that's what we do and how we create a groove or vibe even if we've never met or played with each other before. But yeah no doubt these guys are a prime example of seasoned professional hired guns (obviously Marcus included as a career side man before he had the credits to do his own thing) who know how to play to the music and support as opposed to showing off their own creativity as the highlight of the music and making the music all about them (easy to do in my opinion any closet musician can make great music on their own... playing as a unit and leaving the other musicians the appropriate space and tone is an art in itself) but yeah...playing for miles Davis at that young of an age (19 or 20?)... wow. And I feel.like he already got his ass kicked and paid his dues before that..miles pretty much let him do his own thing and make his own groove. I bet it was more work for him doing studio work for singers and musicians/bands that he didn't know or hadn't heard before. That's the real deal journey to being a complete musician, being able to hear someone's music and hear and understand what your instrument needs to do to support the music not necessarily what you think is cool or is going to impress musicians of the same instrument or make you stand out. The music is a higher power than any one musican (subjectively) can obtain on their own and requires more than one musican to conjure the "magic" when the music is really happening. Basically chemistry. Doesn't have to be the greatest musicians on their own to make the best music. To that point the greatest musicians in the world could make the worst music in the world if they're not on the same page and don't have chemistry. Again it's a unit or group effort and you're only as good as the musicians you're playing with and everybody has to listen to each other and give each other the proper space or support when appropriate. It's all in what you're going for I guess. Some people like the most dissonant toned music or off rhythm odd time signature music (that's actually a whole different subject and off topic) but when two instruments are playing in the same register or their frequencies are too close (at least for us in the bass clef) it creates a noid (when two same notes in the same octave actually cancel each other and is unheard by the human ear, why I'm picky about keyboard players and how they use their left hand and play as a unit as opposed to playing solo pieces where they have all the sonic space to do whatever they please) the result is mud or clashing frequencies that our ears don't perceive musically

Sprinter 999 they are both serious vets in the biz

Love you Beanie....Patty from Maine and Frazier st.

47:01 do you know the song name?

And this one 14:23 ?

@Mitch Wild Some kind of deluxe (active electronics) Fender jazz bass

Looks like late 66 or 67 fender jazz bass w/Matching headstock custom color Black with lollipop machine heads with preamp,anything he plays gonna sound killin!

listen closely to his albums ;) it's ok you just play wrong notes wright and also Repetition Legitimizes

What's the title of the song 36:42

@@DarenjoeXL2 jean pierre

Whats the title of that song?

@@DarenjoeXL2 Miles Davis - Jean Pierre